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Progress Update : 2009 January 19th-31st

Posted on 05. Feb, 2009 by Derrick.

Ok. . Another 2 weeks has passed. . and I feel I have neglected my blog. . but not for good reason, As I have been busy working on videos for the Video Competition.  I was shooting to win the creative and was still hopeful for the video that gets the most traffic for my last video uploaded 2 days before the comp ended (I Guess I was a little too optimistic on that one). . Anyways. .I haven’t heard confirmation of the winners yet. but will be sure to post the results when I do.

So what’s happened in the last 2 week of January?  well after checking my time log, I was a little shocked to discover I spent just over 50 hours on the 500 Video!  And due to a couple of mini holidays during this time - weekend trip to Brisbane for Chinese New Year and a 4 day break at Jervis Bay in New South Wales - that also cut down my time available to be productive :).  So here’s what I have achieved:

1. Produced the 500 Video - I know I probably over did it :). . but I wanted to be totally happy with it, and I have to say I am pretty proud of the result ~ 50 hours
2. Traffic Generation Activity ~ 3hours
3. Building and optimising blog ~ 4 hours
4. Writing Content ~ 2 hours
5. Miscellaneous ~ 10 hours

After this first full month working on the blog. . - which has mainly consisted with producing the videos :). . and just in my research on what’s happening and whats out there, I feel I’m getting a much better idea of where I am best placed within the World Wide Web - I’ll be making my plans in the next week as I spend time evaluating where I should be heading, and what I want to spend my time on.

Ok. . so lets see how all this activity affected my traffic to my site: - Just click to open up the full size image

You’ll notice a HUGE peak on the 19th wtih 144 Visits in one day!  This was as a result of my first Video being launched.  My Second Video was launched on the 30th Jan and had to leave for my mini holiday so didn’t have the proper time to promote it.

Lastly my Alexa Ranking has improved as well. . I didn’t do a check on the 31st so here are my stats from today:

Wow - I’m now in the top 250,000 websites :). . My goal to get to the top 100,000 is in sights!  When I first started this blog sometime in mid December it was ranked around 9 Million, and slowly I have gone up the Alexa Ranks :).  .anwyays still much more work to do, but this is definitely encouraging!

THE FUTURE:

Anyways. I think my future lies in making instructional videos and reviews, so I’m researching on what I should be making them for.  If you have any ideas or suggestions on what type of videos I should be making - please leave your comments below!

Cheers,

Derrick

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Progress Update : 2009 Week 2 January 12th-18th

Posted on 20. Jan, 2009 by Derrick.

Ok, So a couple of days late. . but I have legitate excuses (Difficultly uploading video to Youtube - for some reason, it wouldn’t accept my HD version, and attempted nearly 10 times - the file was huge - over 700MB :). .Anyways, here’s my progress report for 12th to 18th of January. (times are approximate, as there were a few times when I was in deep concentration on making the video, I forgot to start the timer

My Achievements:

1. Brainstormed Ideas for Video Contest & Produced and Uploaded first Video (~16 hours+)
2. Researched Wordpress themes and revamped my blog ~ 15 hours
3. Initiated my first Joint Venture Project - I’ll reveal more of this later ~ 4 hours
4. Writing 2 Key articles - one on article writing, the other on directory submission ~ 9 hours
5. Spending a very small amount of time on Traffic Generation ~ 2 hours  (I think this is a little inaccurate - probably more closer to 4-5 hours and this was mostly oil rig hopping - visiting and commenting on other peoples blogs)

Below is a nice coloured graph showing you the breakdown:

Now that I have showed you what I have done - Lets check what the RESULTS are

My Key Performance Indicators from the goals I set in January were based on the following : Income, Visitors, and my list building.  As I have been focusing on producing content and updating my site (and subsequently very little on traffic generation) my results this week, have not suprisingly been bad :)  Firstly here are my google Analytics stats:

As you can see I nearly dipped to ZERO on the 16th, but I was luckily able to resurrect my traffic after I finally uploaded my Video to YouTube.  I have to say its very discouraging when you aren’t getting traffic, but its an adrenalin ride when you do:)

Ok. big question : have I made any money?  And the answer is NO. . in fact I’ve spent some money (spent $70 buying the WooTheme to update the look and feel of my site).  But I know I will very soon. . How about my list?  No subscribers yet either, but again I do have a plan. . so this will change very soon

One other bit of good news is that I have climbed in the Alexa Rankings - I’m now proud to say I’m at 580,385 Check it out below:

Oh, and one other thing. . I just passed 1000 friends on twitter :). . so all in all despite not being good to my bank account, it has been a good week :). . .

Well that’s it for week 2.

My plan this week is to continue working on my blog usability and functionality, adding lots of quality content, and spend more time in traffic generation activities

Would love to hear any questions you may have or your thoughts on how I could be more productive, or where you feel I need to focus my energies for the coming weeks - post your comments in the box below

Derrick

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Blogging Progress Report Thursday 8th January 2008

Posted on 08. Jan, 2009 by Derrick.

Hi All,

Had a busy day today.

Here are the goals I Kicked today:

TRAFFIC GENERATION

• Sketched out my 2 ideas to generate traffic. . to be implemented in the next two weeks - I’ll reveal these when they are ready to be launched
• Left comments on about 10 blogs - One thing I have to improve is to devise a better way to keep track of these other than ticking them off on two different sheets. . I’m finding its taking me about 10 - 20minutes per blog visit and comment, so end up spending about 1-2 hours doing this.
• Submitted my site to Alexa - by the way, I checked out my Alexa Ranking a couple a days ago, and was blown away by my ranking - I’m in the top 1 Million Sites Baby!
  

CREATING CONTENT

• Wrote my Jan Goals Blog Entry
• Wrote this Entry
• Wrote My Preview for 3 Software Programs
• Getting my New Blog Design Ideas together

RESEARCH & STUDY

One the major frustrations of building the blog, is that there are SOOO many things I want to get done - I have so many ideas, but at the moment am limited by time and assistants (ie I have none at the moment - so I need to look into how I can get some help
- Anyway one of the things I’ve spent 2-3 hours doing today is evaluating the value of some software that should save time, improve my blog standing and make money -  I’ve found three that look very useful:

• Directory Submitter - Free & Paid Version - Just submitted to 10 directories tonight
• Article Submitter - Free & Paid Version
• Ninja Affiliate - Paid Version Only - wordpress plugin to make affiliate management much easier

In my next post I’ll give a quick preview

Oh.  .yeah.  .and still no Moolah :). . (but that’s all according to plan - see my earlier post

Derrick

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